“Regardless of where you live, you’re gonna be owned by someone at some point. I think the American government so far has been a fair government and I don’t necessarily hate that I’m owned by them at this point.”

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Liberty is the most important feature of our nation and they don’t even understand it. jaw dropping. I see the people in the video having no backbone and take pleasure in the fact that the government can tell them what to do. America is in serious trouble.

“Regardless of where you live, you’re gonna be owned by someone at some point. I think the American government so far has been a fair government and I don’t necessarily hate that I’m owned by them at this point.”

“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” – Samuel Adams

“Regardless of where you live, you’re gonna be owned by someone at some point. I think the American government so far has been a fair government and I don’t necessarily hate that I’m owned by them at this point.”

Regardless of where you live, you’re gonna be owned by someone at some point. I think the American government so far has been a fair government and I don’t necessarily hate that I’m owned by them at this point.

Regardless of where you live, you’re gonna be owned by someone at some point. I think the American government so far has been a fair government and I don’t necessarily hate that I’m owned by them at this point.

Someone should put this in an ad with that .gif/video of the people (lemmings) running off the cliff and jumping into the black hole.

..I confess to not reading the entire thread of comments, but did anyone examine this with the remarks made by the WIDE LODA FLOTUS last night? For that matter the theme of the other speechifiers at the DNC?
More aptly put: aren’t you all absolutely terrified?

It’s as though they took every principle the Founders and Framers cared about and imagined an evil twin parallel universe.

I am still surprised, given both this and Gergen’s comment last night, that at a convention celebrating the first black president, talking of people being owned seems to come so naturally, if unthinkingly, to them.

Republican straw clutching. You “belong” to a family, a club, any organized group. For Christ’s sake why don’t you people invest in a dictionary?

plewis on September 5, 2012 at 11:34 AM

A little. I think we all understand that they COULD HAVE been trying to say we all are a part of society.

But they had plenty of time to prepare this video. Liberals try to claim they are oh so much better at expressing themselves than conservatives. Yet they managed to phrase it in a way that the collectivism literally oozes from it. They could have said “this great American experiment is one thing we all share in. . . ” But no, they said “the government is the only thing we all BELONG to”

Then these bozos come along and confirm that they consider themselves OWNED! Combine that with removing God from the platform and what do you get: These people have such a need to be part of SOME group, that they’ll sell their souls to the one organization that can take away all their rights – the government. They can voluntarily give things up for their beliefs in this country, but if government has the control they are giving away, there won’t be anything voluntary about it!

This, ladies and gentlemen, is why I believe that if Obama is reelected it will mark the beginning of the end of the US as a nation of 50 states and mark the beginning of a move to split the country in half.

I refuse to believe that we conservatives will surrender, allow ourselves to become part of the collective, to become hosts to the Democrats’ parasitic voters, to submit to be ruled.

The Left is nothing if not relentless in their goal to “own” us. We must be as ruthless and relentless in our desire to remain free.

Regardless of where you live, you’re gonna be owned by someone at some point. I think the American government so far has been a fair government and I don’t necessarily hate that I’m owned by them at this point.

Really? I can’t imagine this idiot saying this during W’s presidency. Or during a Romney presidency (where she will be forced to become pregnant and bear the child to work in a sweatshop).

Republican straw clutching. You “belong” to a family, a club, any organized group. For Christ’s sake why don’t you people invest in a dictionary?

plewis on September 5, 2012 at 11:34 AM

plewis thy name is hypocrite. It is obvious you haven’t taken your own advice an invested in a dictionary. Belong and owned are not synonyms. As for Christ’s sake he had a lot to say about the hypocrites of his time and none of it was pretty.

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” ~Ronald Reagan

We hire and fire those who SERVE in the government, at all levels, regularly. They SERVE by our will, and literally as our proxies. They are temporary. WE, the people, are not.

The Democratic party, in its platform and actions, makes itself clear. They’ve chosen to be godless, lawless, friendless, infanticides. They purged the party by virtue of the betrayal of allies and, even those within their own party, who are deemed expendable, or ‘of no value’ in achieving their goals, and hence, they are declining.

They’ve included in their numbers communists, socialists, Marxists, anarchists, foreign nationals who seek only to take what they wish from this nation, and those with virtually no regard for the law, the rights of others, national sovereignty, or the unique American culture.

Is it really any surprise that these are the people most likely to CHOOSE to marry the government, belong, body and soul, to the government, unable or unwilling to even grasp the meaning of freedom?

These pathetic, soft, cowardly bitter people, will cling to their government, so long as they believe it will provide for their needs without them ever providing for themselves or taking responsibility for themselves.

THESE are the true BITTER CLINGERS. Clinging to the government dole and the life of ease it affords them, EVEN TO THE POINT OF SLAVERY TO THAT MASTER.

Yikes. Thanks for the reminder. Mike Tyson fell off the plantation by not wanting to be known as an “African-American”. We’ll have to ask Demi if slavery has been abolished yet and for an update as to many slaves she has freed. She set the bar high at 1 million. I doubt she’s freed one.

They want to “belong” to government only insofar as they can get a position in that same government and dictate to others how to live…

Pest on September 5, 2012 at 12:05 PM

Yeah if they were planting 50,000acres of corn by hand 18hrs a day they would change thier tune pretty quick.

It amazes me that these people think they are immune, or special and will somehow occupy the top 1% of the new dictatorial reqime.

The Khmer Rouge leadership boasted over the state-controlled radio that only one or two million people were needed to build the new agrarian communist utopia. As for the others, as their proverb put it,

It was some white dude at the end of the video that said this. In fairness, the blacks were all on board with this and one of them said, “I believe this, unfortunately, the Republicans don’t” Mind boggling

I do not think that these folks have any understanding of the concept of “ownership”
If you are “owned” there is no “pursuit of happiness”
They are tossing the DofI in their greed.
We need to protect these folks from themselves.

Regardless of where you live, you’re gonna be owned by someone at some point. I think the American government so far has been a fair government and I don’t necessarily hate that I’m owned by them at this point.

There are too many Americans who would rather be owned by the government than to go out as free men and women and try and succeed on their own without that safety net that keeps them afloat. They don’t have the fortitude it takes to make it on their own. Instead of “don’t tread on me” they should carry “coddle me” flags.

“Regardless of where you live, you’re gonna be OWNED BY SOMEONE at some point. I think the American government so far has been a fair government and I don’t necessarily hate that I’m owned by them at this point.”

- Delegate to the DNC

Sounds about right coming from the Party of Secession, Slavery and Segregation. People are property.

The saddest are the descendants of slaves, who are proud to be owned by the Federal government.

Regardless of where you live, you’re gonna be owned by someone at some point. I think the American government so far has been a fair government and I don’t necessarily hate that I’m owned by them at this point.

Regardless of where you live, you’re gonna be owned by someone at some point. I think the American government so far has been a fair government and I don’t necessarily hate that I’m owned by them at this point.

aww, what happened to occupy wall street and all those ‘lofty’ ideas, or some are better to be owned by than others…WS – bad people owners, gubmint – good sheeple owners…heh, choices…

Sums up what a Democrat is, a slave owned by the Democrat Party. They either refuse or are prevented from escaping their slavery. Witness what happens to anyone that tried to escape; a whipping is putting it nicely. The problem is that is exactly what they want to do to US not yet confined on their plantation.